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...dissenting opinion, Justice McKinney held with the Scopes defense and with Henry E. Colton of the Tennessee Academy of Science (which pressed the appeal) that the language employed by Farmer J. W. Butler, the bill's hillbilly author, was "so vague that men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application"; that therefore the bill "violates the first essential of due process of law." There are eight Biblical versions of "the story of the Divine Creation," some of them quite contradictory...
Pierce Hall: 9-10, J. C. Spragus: 10-11, D. C. Colton, 11-12, E. B. Jackson: 12-1, C. R. Turney...
...Quarterback Dix. Totally different from the Red Grange business in that a milk route has been substituted for ice, it nevertheless squeezes out the same delighted gasps when agile Richard slides over the goal line on his handsome hip. For a long while things look black for Alma Mater Colton. False charges of professionalism ban the star back for the game. Even when, proved innocent, he plays again in the third quarter, it is of no avail-till he is assured of the heroine's true love. Then the mud begins to fly. The smile of Louise Mason (Esther...
Whoop it up for dear old Colton, the co-ed college where the scene is laid, for Charles Paddock--Himself, and for the janitor's pet mouse which ran up Bebe Daniel's silk stocking, frightened the haughty young lady, and made her outdo the best girl hurdler old Colton could boast. Whoop it up for the Kappa Betas, who taught the haughty young lady a lesson, and then when she had won the relay for dear old Colton, promptly took her in. Whoop it up for the director who conceived the notion of locking Bebe in the Astronomy Observatory...
...fined $100 for teaching evolution, contrary to the state law, in a public school at Dayton, Tenn. For Mr. Scopes appeared John T. Neal, onetime head of the state law school, Charles Strong representing the Unitarian Laymen's League, Arthur Garfield Hays for the Civil Liberties Union, Henry Colton on behalf of the Tennessee Academy of Science. They argued that the law was unconstitutional, that evolution and Christianity are not mutually exclusive...